A Cohesive Well Thought Response

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Television is the mainstream of our culture. Violence on television has been a topic of conflict since before 1950. There have been repeated debates on how to protect children from the harmful effects of violence on television. Television is one form of modern media that influences the everyday lives of people. Televised violence has a major effect on how children perceive the world and how they behave. "American television has become the most violent in the world. It is for this reason why researchers have focused their attention toward television violence" (Cantor & Hoffner 424-4-25). Children enjoy watching television and now with the increased technology of cable and movie

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The two theories that the researcher will look at that fit into this research are Cultivation theory and Agenda-setting theory.

Media violence is one of the most debated public issues society faces today. Television screens are loaded with the glamorization of weapon carrying. Violence constitute as amusing and trivialized. Needless portrayals of interpersonal violence spread across the television screens like wild fire. Televisions spew the disturbing events such as children being assaulted, husbands inflicting domestic abuse on their wives and children succumbing to abuse by their parents. Scenes of betrayal, anguish, infiltrate the television screen. Unfortunately, a child becomes subjected to media violence. Everything a child sees or hears in the media affects them in some way or another. The precise effects of media violence on children are

     I’d like to first start off with the cultivation theory (also keep in mind the social learning theory, it is of the same nature). For those unfamiliar with this theory it states, the more media one consumes the more likely he or she will perceive the world as scary place. Now to be totally honest my views

It explains the impact of violence in our society and how that could bring to a person or their memory the image of physical or emotional assault. In most circumstances, the person affected with the violence is more aware that violence is an action that can have impact on people. There is also another form of violence where individual that is being affected in most cases are unaware of the violence inflicted upon them. For example, we have television seen as a source of the most broadly shared images and messages in history; it is the mainstream of the common symbolic environment into which children are born and which has a major part to play in our lives. One can argue that media violence contribute towards social violence where the effects place a huge impact in ones being. Television violence is not only a form of media violence; there are other significant forms of media that contribute to media violence which are computer games, comic books, and

          Due to violence on television, children become less sensitive to that pain and suffering of others or to become more aggressive to others. It also makes children more fearful to the world around them. (Abelard 1) Viewing habits of children observed for many decades deduced that violence on TV is associated with aggressive behavior, more than poverty, race, or parental behavior. It also reported that a TV show contains about 20 acts of violence an hour.

The authors uses these hypotheses linking the cultivation theory and TRA: H1a: Amount of television viewing will be positively related to beliefs about the prevalence of crime and violence in society; H1b: Beliefs about the prevalence of crime will predict the attitudes that the world is a mean place; H1c: The attitude that the world is a mean place will predict intentions to take protective measures; H1d: Intentions to take

Furthermore, George Gerbner has studied the effects of television violence (sensationalism) for more than thirty years. Through his studies, George Gerbner has found that violence seen on television does not promote violent behavior. It does much worse;

In the current era of media is a step, a step towards innovation is very indispensable. It marks an innovation in bringing human society to a new level, a civilized society, development. That is a strong mark optimal development in all fields. This year is the 50th anniversary of Marshall McLuhan published learn about media. A statement made by him that made many people to think that "The medium is the message". McLuhan clearly support the notion that media increases the desire and new purposes. (Dekay, Sam H, 2014, page 51-52)